Match-boxing attachment



G. LISPENARD.

MATCH BOXTNG ATTACHMENT.

APPLTCATION FILED N0v,13, 191s.

a a o u a v .0 a a a u n o u ou TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE LISPENARD, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSEGNOR TO & F. MATCH MACHINE CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

MATCH-BOXING ATTACHMENT.

Application filed November 13, 1918.

17 all whom it may com-em:

Be it known that I, GEORGE LISPENARD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Match-Boxing Attachments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in certain details of construction in that type of mechanism which is used for inserting matches as they are ejected from the carrier of a match machine into match boxes or trays which are carried on the belt opposite the carrier. As the matches are light and quite likely to be displaced easily, it requires considerable nicety ofadjustment to make the matches lie straight in the trays and be delivered without displacement from the carrier to the trays. The object of my invention is to make this process more certain and reliable than at present. Furthermore, match trays when carried on a belt in this way almost invariably buckle inward slightly at the sides, and the matches as they tall into the trays sometimes strike on the point between two match boxes, and owing to the increased width occasioned by the aforesaid buckling, a splint will occasionally lie at the junction of two boxes and have a tendency to displace other matches. My invention is intended to obviate this diiiiculty.

l erence is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a general face View of the boxing attachment as applied to the carrier of a match machine.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross section through the boxing attachment at the point where the matches are delivered to the trays.

Fig. 3 is a broken detail view showing the arrangement of the clips between adjacent trays.

Fig. 4 is a cross section through the carry ing belt showing one of these box carrying clips in elevation.

Fig. 5 is a cross section through the boxing attachment at the point where the carrying belt is jarred or vibrated to settle and straighten the matches.

Fig. 6 is a broken plan view of a part of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1920.

Serial No. 262,300.

the boxing attachment taken at a point where the matches are delivered through the guide bed to the trays, and the parts immediately adjacent thereto, and

Fig. 7 is a detail of the carrying belt and the box carrying clips showing the latter in edge elevation.

The drawings show just enough of the general boxing arrangements to make my improvements clearly understood. 10 represents the ordinary or any preferred type of match carrier, from which the matches 11 are ejected into boxes or trays 12 which are carried by a belt 13. The matches as they fall from the carrier are guided by a grid 14, the members of which enter between the matches, and these members are supported by a bar 15 to which they are attached. They are collected on the slotted slide 16 which has registerlike openings so that the matches will be alternately checked and dropped through to the trays below. The belt runs over a suitable supporting plate between guides 17 shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, and higher guides 18 serve to prevent the displacement of the box trays. All of the above is more or less conventional, and is not here claimed nor shown in great detail. As stated, the showing is sufficient to make clear the application of my improvements.

In practice it has been found that with structures of this kind the matches when dropped through the slide 16 are likely to slip endwise either inward or outward over the end edges of the trays. To prevent this I attach a guard plate 19 to the underside and outer part of the slide 16, so that it shall register with the outer ends of the trays l2, and this prevents the matches from being shoved out endwise beyond the trays. On the opposite or inner side of the boxing attachment between the carrier and the grid members 14 I attach a similar plate 20 which thinned to an edge at the top and which extends down so as to register with the inner ends of the trays 12. This plate 20 is attached to the inner ends of the grid members 14 and therefore serves the purpose of preventing the matches from being displaced, inwardly toward the carrier, and also serves the purpose of stiffening the grid members 1% against bending or vibration.

The boxes or trays are held in place on the belt by clips :21 which usually are rather less in height than the boxes, and extend generally for only a comparatively small part of the box length. By reference to Fig. 6 it will be seen that the trays 12 usually buckle inward at the sides. This is common to nearly all trays, and heretofore matches have had a tendency to drop occasionally on this part, that isthe junction of the two sides of adjacent boxes and thus tend to interfere with other matches being dropped in the trays or boxes. To guard against this the clips 21 are extended upward a little distance above the top edges of the trays and are made so thin that a match will not lie lengthwise upon them. Furthermore the clips are lengthened at their upper parts as hown best in Figs. 4 and 5 so as to extend practically the wholelength of a box, and thus there is no chance for a match to lie between two boxes. The lower middle portions of the clips fill the space between the guides 17, thereby steadying their movement..

Another difficulty in machines of this kind has been in the displacement of the boxes when the belt is vibrated to settle and straighten the sticks. This is done often by having a vibrating arm 23 strike against the under side of the belt 13, and to provide against displacement the guides 18 are curved inward at the top at this point as shown at 18 in Fig. 5 so that the boxes cannot be very much displaced but only jarred up and down slightly.

The vibrating arm 23 can be actuated in any convenient way, and in order that it may be understood I have shown it secured to a rock shaft 2a which has a second arm 25 held against a rotating notched wheel 26 by a spring 27, so that the vibrations from the notched wheel are transmitted through the arms 25 and 23 to the belt. This knocking or vibrating arrangement I have shown simply in diagram, as the parts 24, 26 and 27 can be supported in any convenient way, as any mechanic will understand. Heretofore the matches when ejected would sometimes slide out over the bar 15 (see Fig. 2) but a guard 15 is attached to the bar which has an inclined portion extending inward and upward over the grid members 14, and the heads of the matches when ejected strike beneath this inclined part and are snuggled down straight between the members.

The foregoing attachments while very simple and easy to apply, effect a great benefit in boxing matches and cause them to lie evenly in the trays.

I claim In a machine of the kind described the combination of the carrying belt and the guides therefor rising above the sides of the belt, and the clips spaced apart on the carrying belt and adapted to receive boxes or trays between them, each clip having its lower portion fitting between the aforesaid guides, and a thin upper portion extending for nearly the length of the match trays, said upper portion being elongated so as to extend for a greater part of the length of the trays.

GEORGE LISP'ENARD.

Witnesses WARREN B. HUTCHINSON, M. G. OPDONNELL. 

